or perhaps they just do something cool really well, like the girls' Kendo team in Bamboo Blade (which incidentally no one I've metin Tokyo has ever heard of)
Maybe the school kids are training for something amazing, like the space cadets in Kou Yaginuma's brilliant Twin Spica
Or, maybe the whole school moves itself to another planet, causing mayhem, as in Kazuo Umezu's award winning manga The Drifting Classroom
Or maybe like in Battle Royale, a whole class turns into serial killers
Despite all this fabulous hype, I wasn't exactly surprised on Monday morning when I saw this perfectly ordinary school bus queue
or a perfectly boring and ordinary high school building
BUT I have to admit that was, secretly, a tiny bit disappointed.
So, another new discovery: Japanese High Schools really are just like any others, only perhaps with even worse school uniforms. Oh well!
Laura!
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By the way, your blog is hilariously entertaining, and I have enjoyed reading through your posts so far!
I think it's especially true about High Schools, (or schools in general) in Japan! You expect something outrageous, similar to what we see on television, in movies, in manga and so on, but they are pretty much the same as they are back home!